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Harper & Brothers, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Set of two volumes. Sturdy clean copies with sound bindings. With two frontispiece illustrations of Twain. Rag ends with top gilting. Name of former owner in old-fashioned ink. Excellent bright gilting to covers and spine. With light moderate wear to corner tips and spine ends, with vol I rubbed along spine edge. Vol 2 with a scatter of small white spots to front. Generally a handsome, well-preserved set. Heavy and may need extra shipping..

Limited edition. Thin octavo. Title page woodcut and 7 woodcuts in the text. Original green cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Very good. 25 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. One of 525 copies, printed at the Walpole Printing Office, New Rochelle, New York Zane Grey's copy with his "thin" blindstamp on the front free endpaper.

First edition, Harper code L-Y. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering under light blue dust jackets. Both volumes exceedingly nice. The jackets have minor fading, minor chipping to vol. 1, stain to head of spine panel on vol. 1. Quite presentable. Posthumously published, this was Twain's life story the way he wanted it to be told. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

1924. VOLUMES I and II. COVER WEAR. COVERED SPINES. TANNED PAGES. An acceptable ex-library hardcover with typical library markings. Tanned pages have an occasional smudge or mark. Heavy cover wear spine ends and corners with cardboard showing. Clear protective library tape on the spines. NO DUST JACKETS. Booksavers receives donated books and recycles them in a variety of ways. Proceeds benefit the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in the U.S. and around the world.

Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine who was Clemens' literary executor. Twain had been attempting to write an autobiography for 35 years prior to his death. The task of editing his "disorganzed mass of unpublished writing" fell to Albert Paine (much of it was dictated prior to his death in 1909), and publishing it in book form was first attempted by Harper's--it covers about 2/5 of his unpublished works. Frontis portrait in each volume with tissue guard. Pagination: vol. 1: 368pp; vol. 2: 365pp. Two pages of ads in rear of volume 2 with Harper's Mark Twain books. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with bright gilt spine and cover lettering; top edges gilt. Previous owner bookplate in each volume on front paste down else, a nice clean, tight and unmarked set with no interior or exterior markings. This is the August 1924 printing (K-Y) in first year of publication (2 months after the first August printing). Ref: BAL 3537 p. 225; Frontis Portraits; 8vo, 8"-9" tall.

Size: 9x6x1; Complete set of two volumes published 1924 by Harper & Brothers. "L-Y" on copyright page. Moderate wear to tips of spine. Name of former owner (dated 1924) written on front free endpapers of both volumes; else, no markings noted. Gilt top page edges. Generally mild wear.